Cassette Beasts
Explore New Wirral, record monsters onto cassette tapes and become them in turn-based battles. Combining your form with a companion's creates a new fusion, while some monster abilities also help you cross the island.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.6 / 10
About this game
Cassette Beasts puts you on New Wirral with a simple objective: find a way home. You explore the island, record monsters onto tapes and play those recordings to transform for turn-based combat. Your collection also changes exploration, because certain abilities work in human form, letting you glide, swim or climb through the environment and solve puzzles. Battles revolve around more than choosing a monster form. You can fuse with a companion, and developing that relationship improves your ability to combine forces. Elemental interactions can add helpful or harmful effects and even change an opponent's type. These systems connect exploration, companion relationships and battle decisions; a second local player can also join the journey on the same console.
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AI review
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An appealing design for collectors who enjoy experimenting with combinations and exploring with new abilities.
Recording gives each monster a potential role in both your battle options and your movement across the island. Fusion and elemental reactions should particularly interest players who like reconsidering combinations instead of settling on a single familiar team.
Strengths
- Monster abilities connect collecting with practical exploration, giving new forms a purpose beyond combat.
- Fusion and changing elemental states provide premises for experimenting with how a team works together.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy turn-based team building, ability-led exploration and developing relationships with traveling companions.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Using acquired abilities to travel and solve puzzles may give collecting a sense of forward movement across the island. | Reviewed | 8.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Because elements can alter effects and types, players who enjoy adapting a plan may find more to consider than a fixed damage matchup. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The recording-and-playback premise gives monster transformation a tangible identity, while animated fusions may make experimentation visually rewarding. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Same-console local cooperation offers a practical way for two players to share the exploration without needing separate systems. | Reviewed | 3.4 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Bytten Studio
- Publisher
- Raw Fury
- Release date
- May 25, 2023
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Turn-based Combat3D GraphicsExplorationSolo-friendlyMain Story 20–50 HoursFantasyThird PersonStory-drivenLong-term ProgressionLevel Progression
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single playerCo-opMultiplayer
- Perspectives
- Side viewThird person
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideMay 25, 2023
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
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